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*we had a photoshoot [Mom note: many more pics throughout] |
Chama galera!!! Quase esqueci mandar algo hoje porque fomos tentar achar camisetas de um time de futebol aqui em Ponta Grossa. Mas, não achamos🤦♂️[Hey guys!!! I almost forgot to send something today because we tried to find jerseys of a soccer team here in Ponta Grossa. But we couldn't find any.]
Happy cinco de maio!!!!!!! WOOHOO!! Someone eat a taco and send me a pic cause I don't think they have tacos here😅
But besides trying to have tacos (we actually had burgers today) here are the other highlights from the week:
Monday - Last time at the chácara!! We went to the chácara with the AP's, ZL's, and the Elders from Dalcol. We ended up playing "Secret Hitler" and out of the 3 games we played, I won once! I'd say that I'm pretty professional!
Tuesday - We had our zone meeting today where we talked about talking to EVERYONE! We had a cool activity where we chose one person in a group of 10 to be an elect person who would go to church and we had to try and find them in 5 minutes. Let's just say, never have I seen so many missionaries running around😆 We also found this guy named Lucas. He had a really strange curiosity about the book of mormon and knew so much about the gospel already that idk if he was actually a member and was faking it... I still don't know😅
Wednesday - We found a lot of cool people today and also did some visits with our friend Vinícius. For example we went to visit Ana and Laiany, a recent convert and her mom. Fun facts I learned that day: you can almost die eating corn bread (Tenha cuidado Elder Collins!) And ana is the same size as the length of a tie😂👔
Thursday - Dia do trabalhador!!! (#laborday) turns out it was a holiday today so a lot of people were at home.. and didn't want to attend the door🫠. It was like a rundown country town. The good thing was we had lunch with Andreia who, while we were talking about American movies, showed me that singing in the rain exists in portuguese!!!! I'm adding that to the bucket list. But now for the title of this email. We were searching for a reference from a member and we knew that the reference lived in a condominio but we didn't know how to get in. Right at that moment, I got a bloody nose!! Needing to find a bathroom and a tissue, I remembered that a inactive member lives in the condominio and called to him. Luckly he answered! We then went in, asked about the reference, and 5 minutes later we were talking with the reference at her house and they said they would go to church!! Thanks bloody nose, I knew you would come in handy one day!
Friday - The cool part of today was going to English Connect and our friend Helena, Kaue, and Eriki were there again and their English has gotten really good! We then ended the night at the church with the youth who started asking us if what they saw in the movies is real about the US. Let's just say, yes and no😅
Saturday - Today we went around confirming everyone for church and the coolest part was seeing how faithful our most recent convert is, Neymar! When we passed by, he was actually on the church website paying tithing!! It is incredible to see how devoted they are to the gospel of Christ and trust in his blessing!
Sunday - Today we got some more of the family of Kelly and Neymar to church, Samuel and Katia. Katia is the mother of Samuel and Emanuel, who has already been to church a few times. We tried to find them again that night but couldn't. We are hoping we can talk to them this week and schedule them for baptism this coming week (keep them in your prayers!) The other cool and sad part was saying bye to our friend Gabriel who is going on his mish. We arrived right as he was watching the online CTM Devotional. We watched a little and it gave me a lot of memories but I'm happy he is serving!
Scripture for the week: 2 Nephi 4:34 (trust in the Lord)
Amo vocês! Até a semana que vem! [Love you guys! See you next week!]
- Elder Fisher
